Pastoral Ministries and Mission Center
A multi-cultural community of Sisters today resides in Philadelphia, PA. Each offers her own culturally unique gifts and skills through the daily service of her ministry. They assist newcomers to the United States through pastoral and social outreach, with several Handmaids providing evangelization and social services to the Latino and Asian communities. Helping these communities to grow in their faith, to understand and survive in their new environment, and to inculturate, while at the same time, preserving their own heritages, the Handmaids are a vital and valuable resource. Through their pastoral and social outreach, the Handmaid community adds to the witness of the Church in the city by being a prayerful, neighborly presence among the urban underprivileged sisters and brothers of all races and ethnic groups.
Contact person for Philadelphia: Sister Asunta Thanh, acj
Address: 1242 South Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19146-3119
Telephone: (215)-468-6368
E-mail:
Mission Center: PROJECT FIAT
In a country stricken by poverty, social divisions and natural disasters, Handmaids have worked their way into the hearts of Salvadorans. The El Salvador lay mission was founded in 2003 and serves Salvadorans in several villages. Through Project FIAT, volunteers from the United States and other countries build houses and roads side by side with local communities, help nurture malnourished children at a local center, play with abandoned children, accompany the district nurse in a nearby village, organize and implement after school activities and help to provide basic necessities. Project FIAT has a powerful impact both on the volunteers themselves and on the people they serve. To learn more about Project FIAT International, please visit us at: http://projectfiat.org
Contact person: Belen Escauriaza, Mission Coordinator
Address: 1242 South Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19146-3119
Telephone: (215)-468-6368
E-mail: acjbelen@gmail.com
Liaison in El Salvador: Lynette Kyle
Address: Casa Voluntariado Santa Rafaela Maria
Blvd. Héctor Silva Romero
121 y 125 Colonia Médica
San Salvador, El Salvador C.A.
Telephone: 011-503-2-226-7610 or (7615)